Dr. Po-Fang Philip Hsieh (謝伯芳博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Po-Fang Philip Hsieh
- Chinese: 謝伯芳博士
- Era: 1934
- Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
- Core roles: professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Dr. Po-Fang (Philip) Hsieh 謝伯芳博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心
Education
- National Taiwan Univ. — 1953-1957 — B.S., Mathematics
- Univ. of Minnesota — 1959-1961 — M.S., Mathematics — 1961-1964 — Ph.D., Mathematics
Employment
- Western Michigan Univ. — Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Professor Emeritus — (1964-2000) — Math Research Center, Univ. of Wisconsin — Visiting Associate Professor — (1968-1968) — Math Department, UCLA — Visiting Associate Professor — (1969-1969) — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Mathematics Research Center — Research Mathematician — (1970-1971)
Family
- Wife: Emmy H. (蘇惠美)
- Son: Paul S. (謝碩旼), Timothy I. (謝恩次)
Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-14)
- Bibliographic record in the TAH story corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2318-po-fang-hsieh||TAH #2318 encyclopedia entry]]（2021-02-22 刊載，value band B，全文存 vault）
- Employment record Western Michigan Univ.（1964–2000）：其任職地Community association — |Taiwanese Association of West Michigan
- Visiting appointment UCLA（1969）：同地台灣學生社團 — |Taiwanese American Student Association at UCLA
Role in the Community (corpus-sourced, deepen 2026-09-14)
- Authored the community memoir 「懷憶六十年代前期的明市」(2021-03, value band A): 2021 (English: 369. Life in the early 1960s in Minneapolis) — first-hand record of the early Taiwanese student community in Minneapolis.
- Arrived Minneapolis spring 1959; in autumn 1960 co-founded the weekly Friday 「Mpls 台灣人祈禱查經會」with 殷宗舜、李春美、陳秉虔、蘇惠美 — starting at ~10 attendees, growing past 20; the group fed the midwest 「基督徒夏令會」 retreats organized with Madison students (劉真真、陳紹紀、鄭學禮 et al.).
- Married 蘇惠美 (Emmy H., in Family above) on 1961-07-08 at Albert Lea Presbyterian Church — consistent with the TAH profile; the engagement banquet (1961-05-14) gathered 30+ Taiwanese in Minneapolis.
- Per the TAF photo-album record Our Journeys 58: as 「Dr. Philip Shieh 謝伯芳 of Kalamazoo, Michigan」he contributed to and collaborated on the yearly Taiwanese Christians Fellowship and Bible Retreats programs from the TAF era onward (record names later residence Laguna Woods, CA — “Luguna Wood” as spelled in the source).
- The same photo-album’s English edition Our Journeys 33 (EN) lists him in the state-by-state contributor roster as 「Michigan: 鄭俊明、廖光生、林辰吉、謝伯芳、陳坤木」 — consistent with the Kalamazoo, Michigan residence stated above.
- 台大數學系求學口述（1953–1957 屆）：taiwanjustice.net 台大人回憶報導（2024-05-23）收有本人第一手回憶——該屆僅四名學生（三台灣人、一外省人），教授以沈璿（系主任，東京帝大）為首、台灣人副教授施拱星（京都帝大）、許振榮（東北帝大）；本人回憶當時就業市場不佳、無研究所可留，赴美讀博後因美蘇太空競賽人才需求獲多個單位聘用；亦回憶與小一屆的師大畢業太太蘇惠美（Emmy）當年均未聽聞四六事件 — 2024-05-23 taiwanjustice.net 台大人回憶報導。與本頁 Education（NTU 數學 B.S. 1953–1957）及 Family（妻蘇惠美）相互印證。
- 2018-07-20 台大校友連署嚴正抗議南加州台大校友會邀請管中閔於年會演講，連署名單列有「謝伯芳（醫科）」 — HOLD: the signatory is tagged 醫科 while this page’s subject holds an NTU 數學系 B.S. (1953–1957); possibly a second person of the same name, not merged. Source: 2018-07-20 台大校友抗議連署／taiwanjustice.net.